Throughout my life, I have always been very passionate about sports. In fact, most of the conversations I have in a given day are sports-related. As an avid player and spectator of many sports, the DP gave me the opportunity to be a true college sports reporter, as well.

Four years after they were hand–selected from the admitted class of 2011, Penn’s pioneering class of Civic Scholars are preparing themselves for graduation.

I never really expected to be the DP’s senior sports editor.

For the past four years, I’ve managed to fool everyone at the Daily Pennsylvanian into thinking I’m a journalist, and let me tell you, the act was exhausting.

As the track and field beat writer, I prefer to encourage Penn students to appreciate the sport and its connection with Penn.

With finals, moving out and, for some, graduation, the last few weeks have offered plenty for the typical student to handle. But rowers on the women’s crew team have had one more thing on their mind.

Farewell columns that descend into list form are disgraceful cliches — the likes of which no self-respecting writer would ever allow. My bad.

I’d be remiss to write about anything else but my DP friends with my final bittersweet words that will ever grace these pages.

Freshman high-jumping sensation Maalik Reynolds keeps raising the bar.

After an early exit from the Ivy tournament, Penn women’s lacrosse sat in limbo Sunday awaiting the NCAA’s tournament seeding.

As the Penn softball team’s new stadium is being completed, the program is banking on the famous Field of Dreams mantra for next season

Controversy arose when former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke at Penn earlier this year.

Recently, the Multicultural Greek Council announced newly elected members to its 2011-12 executive board. Jae Barchus, a College junior and member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. was elected president of the MGC.

This June, the Rotunda will see its 100th birthday — and over the last 100 years it has witnessed changing relationships between Penn and West Philadelphia.

Second-year PennDesign student Michael Marfione’s thesis — an 11-minute remake of Fellini’s 8 1/2 harem scene — won this year’s $10,000 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship prize, which is given to 10 students at 10 schools in the country.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board announced last month that they will be running a pilot program to sell hard liquor to some of the current wine kiosks across the state.

English lecturer Kenneth Goldsmith performed his poems with a unique twist at the White House on Wednesday as part of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Evening of Poetry.”